Each church or brotherhood has these guys in robes and hoods. Some churches have upwards of 3000 of these guys marching through the streets of Sevilla 24/7 all week long complete with Marching Bands and two floats (more on that later).
I took this shot from our balcony. This guys seems to have a date!
Brotherhood of the White coats meeting. Don't really know what they were talking about! Probably the parade route they had to take!
Heading home after a long day of marching?
This is one of the floats. The parade route for this church went right in front of our apartment. Thousands of people line up at all hours of the day and night to see these processions. There were many times when we were walking in the city that we ran across a procession and could not get back to our apartment. Each church or brotherhood has two floats and they march to the main cathedral in Sevilla and then back to their church. Some routes took over 14 hours to complete!
Another view of the float from our balcony. There are 16 to 30 guys under the float carrying it around. Thy typically go in 1/2 hour shifts as these things must be quite heavy. What a strange gig!
Each procession has a marching band playing behind their first float. Some of these marching bands were quite large with over 300 musicians!
Most of the marching bands were brass bands, but this one had woodwinds and a very large sax section!
Carrying the crosses in the procession!
This cafe is directly under our apartment! Quite loud! But they close at midnight and our apartment has sound proof windows that keep the noise out quite well.
We also visited the main Cathedral, which has Christopher Columbus' tomb. He wanted to be buried in several places in Spain. Rumor has it that his index finger is here in this tomb. Gotta love that!
This is the view from the bell tower in the church. You climb ramps up to the bell tower instead of stairs. Back in the day, the monk that rang the bells road a donkey up the ramps each morning to ring the bells! The bull fighting stadium is in the distance. We did tour that...after the tour I have no intention of going to a bull fight. They start on Easter Sunday and run every Sunday for 24 weeks.
Ethan, Tobi, and Paige look up in the Cathedral!
We also went to a "real"Flamenco show and it was fantastic! Loved it!
More Flamenco!
More later....
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